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Dr. Rupp has held post doctoral and research scientist positions in the USA, Austria, Germany, Switzerland and Israel, where he has acquired a broad background in instrumentation, crystallography, and structural chemistry and biology. In 1992 he founded the Macromolecular Crystallography and Structural Genomics group of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, University of California, Livermore, CA, and established the high throughput crystallization facility of the TB Structural Consortium, one of the nine PSI-1 Protein Structure Initiatives. Dr Rupp is an experienced instructor, well known for his dynamic workshops, crystallization courses, and interactive web tutorials (http:/ruppweb.dyndns.org/). He is presently adjunct Professor for Molecular Structural Biology at the University of Vienna, Austria, and at the University of California, Irvine.

Dr Rupp’s research interests include high throughput crystallography, technology development, structure guided drug design, and structural bioinformatics. In addition to technology development and discovery driven research, he has worked on neurotoxins, superantigens, and mycobacterium tuberculosis drug target structures. He is presently developing next-generation crystal harvesting robotics with a private company and working in drug discovery.